Van Riemsdyk played for Rolston for two years, earning a world championship gold medal in 2006 before getting silver the following year.
Reports had suggested a foot injury would prevent the 24-year-old adding to the world heptathlon gold medal she won in Berlin last year.
The South African has not raced since claiming the gold medal at the World Championship in Berlin last August.
One of the legends of track cycling has said that Newtownards cyclist Martyn Irvine's gold medal at the World Track Championships should lead to more investment in Irish cycling.
After winning the 100 meters final in Seoul in 1988, a reporter asked the Canadian sprinter what was more precious: a world record or the gold medal?
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Chastain went on to win another World Cup and an Olympic gold medal in her brilliant 16-year career.
Ye Shiwen took seconds off her personal best to break the world record and win a gold medal in the 400m medley on Saturday, swimming faster in the last 50m than the winner of the men's event.
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LONDON, Ontario (AP) Carolina Kostner could have taken her gold medal from last year's world championships and run.
After her first attempt, world champion McKayla Maroney looked like a sure gold medal winner.
World number two side Argentina picked up the gold medal after Noel Barrionuevo's hat-trick steered them to a surprise 4-2 victory against the only team ranked above them, the Netherlands.
While for Devonish the bronze was his fourth relay world championship medal, having also won an Olympic gold in the 4x100m at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
The Russian broke the world indoor record on each of her last three appearances in Britain earlier this year, the final one at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham where she took the gold medal with a clearance of 4.80 metres.
He had previously won a gold medal in football for the Isle of Man at the World Summer Games in Athens.
There was further gold medal success for the United States in the decathlon as world record holder Ashton Eaton won with 8, 869 points.
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The amount of gold used to make a medal shrunk after each of the two World Wars, according to Olympic medal collector and expert Jim Greensfelder.
At the 11 previous World Championships, Jamaica had never won more than one gold medal per meet and in 2005 its runners failed to win a single final.
We are all thinking about the next gold medal, but there are millions of children around the world who are thinking, 'am I going to get the next meal?
Chris Boardman won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and broke the world hour record three times.
Some profess to have seen it during the 4 x 100 relay, in which defending world champion Australia was expected to win a medal, perhaps gold.
Mr Boardman, who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and broke the world hour record three times, said he hoped Martyn's victory would change that situation.
Japan grabbed their third judo gold medal of the Games in the absence of Iran's world champion Arash Miresmaeili who failed to make the weight after earlier threatening to boycott his contest against an Israeli opponent.
"Nobody ever expects to be awarded the gold medal by award of default, " said the three-time world title challenger.
The watches Dr Daniels made on the island were considered by many to be the most technically advanced in the world and he won numerous awards throughout his career, including the Gold Medal of the British Horological Institute.
Loch's teammates Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt, winners of five of seven World Cup doubles events to date, were not threatened either in winning the gold medal ahead of compatriots Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken.
Svindal won the fifth gold of his career and his eighth medal overall as he headed off Italy's World Cup downhill standings leader Dominik Paris by almost half a second, with third-placed Frenchman David Poisson adrift by double that margin.
His opponent in the last eight, Artayev, won the welterweight gold medal at the 2004 Games in Athens and was the middleweight bronze medallist at the 2007 World Championships.
The four-time Paralympic Games gold medalist won a silver medal as part of South Africa's 4x400-meter relay at the world championships in Daegu, South Korea, last year.
Earlier Wednesday, Marlen Esparza earned a bronze medal in the 51-kilo flyweight category but narrowly failed to reach the gold-medal fight after a 10-8 semifinal loss to China's Ren Cancan, the world No. 1 and top seed.
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Lewis-Francis was hailed as the future of British sprinting when he won the world junior title in 2000, and he anchored the British 4x100m relay team to a surprise gold medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004.
Eaton, 24, cemented his status as gold-medal favorite for the London Games, where he will be joined by Trey Hardee, the reigning world champion, who finished second.
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